The c,mm,n (pronounced "common") is on display at the AutoRAI show in Amsterdam. It is called a "free car," meaning that the specifications and technical drawings are available to anyone who wants them.
This vehicle was a project of OScar, which was the brainchild of the Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment and the universities at Eindhoven, Enschede, and Delft. This true Open Source car was designed by an online community over the past eight years...
The goal was to produce a simple, sturdy, easily-maintained, multi-functional, modular vehicle that was truly international, and is intended to be a green family vehicle that can and should be adapted to individual market needs.
Full story here at Autoblog (via Winding Road).
Full story here at Autoblog (via Winding Road).
steve_ says:
08:51 AM, 03/31/07
Designers keep playing with door access, body shapes and fancy materials, but they rarely figure out how to keep the wheels from detracting from the styling. Skirts usually look like a Band-Aid attempt to hide the running gear and they seem worse to me when only one axle is skirted, like the Honda Insight.
Some of the 50's Nash Ramblers did a good job of camouflaging the wheels (although at the expense of maneuverability).
Maybe some C'mm;ner will figure it out.
bbechtel16 says:
11:29 AM, 03/31/07
Why would you want to hide wheels? Wheels are cool, they spin 'round and make the car go.
estreka says:
02:24 PM, 04/ 1/07
This particular vehicle is quite versatile in that it can be used as Shaq's shoe.
ateixeira says:
06:51 AM, 04/ 2/07
Some how, the end product is far less than the sum of its parts.
Either that, or half the people that worked on this thought it was an April Fool's joke. :o)